While working on my plugin, Tango Smileys Extended, I found that my traditional method of programming was not working out very well. I had grown accustomed to having full control over web based content by authoring completely by hand — using a generic text editor (previously Notepad, but more recently EmEditor) — which was becoming very tedious and time consuming. The most time consuming part was having to debug because of a typo or a missing semicolon or curly bracket. The most tedious part was looking through WordPress source trying to find which parameters are passed to a function and what is returned. I was on the lookout for a new editor which could at least help save time and avoid the simple bugs of missing punctuation or mistyped function and variable names. As it turns out, I already had one, except I had never installed it!

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